Author Archives: Syndicated Content
NATO’s Stoltenberg expects new 2% defence investment pledge at Vilnius summit
LISBON (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said he expected allies would agree on a new investment pledge to spend 2% of their gross domestic product on defence at the alli...
May 18, 2023
US-based Forrester Research to close China office
(Reuters) - U.S. tech research and advisory firm Forrester Research has decided to close its office in mainland China after the country's government increased scrutiny on western consultancies. A comp...
May 18, 2023
Ecuador could hold early elections on Aug. 20: electoral court
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador could hold early legislative and presidential elections on Aug. 20, the electoral court said on Thursday, a day after President Guillermo Lasso dissolve...
May 18, 2023
Migrants sleep in Chicago police stations as shelters strain
By Eric Cox and Ted Hesson CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's new mayor is grappling with how to house hundreds of migrants arriving on buses from the U.S.-Mexico border, with some sleeping in police stati...
May 18, 2023
Decision to block Petrobras’ Amazon project roils Lula coalition
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The leader of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government in Brazil's Congress announced on Thursday he was leaving his party as the fallout of environmental agency Ibama's ...
May 18, 2023
Putin’s energy blackmail of Europe has failed, commissioner says
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's attempt to blackmail Europe using energy resources has failed, but next year will still be challenging, the European Commissioner for Energy, Ka...
May 18, 2023
Tennis-Medvedev rolls past Hanfmann to reach Rome semi-finals
(Reuters) - World number three Daniil Medvedev produced a dominant performance against German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann to reach his first Italian Open semi-final, cruising to a 6-2 6-2 victory on Th...
May 18, 2023
Meta announces AI training and inference chip project
By Katie Paul and Stephen Nellis NEW YORK (Reuters) - Meta Platforms on Thursday shared new details on projects it was pursuing to make its data centers better suited to supporting artificial intellig...
May 18, 2023
FTX seeks to claw back over $240 million from Embed acquisition
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is seeking to claw back more than $240 million it paid for stock trading platform Embed, saying former FTX insiders did no investig...
May 18, 2023
Exclusive-Pentagon accounting error overvalued Ukraine aid by $3 billion – sources
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon overvalued U.S. equipment it sent to Ukraine by around $3 billion, a Senate aide and a defense official said on Thursday, an error that opens up the po...
May 18, 2023
